A Look Back: Oct. 15 1904: Georgianna Bishop defeats E. F. Sanford 5 and 3 to win the U.S. Women's Amateur at the Merion Cricket Club in Ardmore, Pa. 1910: Dorothy Campbell wins her second consecutive U.S. Women's Amateur title, at Homewood Country Club in Flossmoor, Ill. 1961: Mickey Wright wins her third LPGA major of the year, winning the LPGA Championship at Stardust Country Club in Las Vegas. 1963: Horton Smith, a two-time Masters champion and former president of the PGA of America, dies at age 55. 1995: Jim Furyk edges Billy Mayfair by one stroke to win the Las Vegas Invitational.

Events
A recent Tom Fazio-designed course, Camp Creek Golf Club in Florida, earns acclaims from area golf publications. The private 18-hole course measures 7,151 yards, is accentuated by a magnificent wetland system and allows guests at nearby Arvida communities WaterColor and WaterSound to have access to the course.
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Irish software company Eagleview International creates a virtual reality tour of the Old Course at St. Andrews, available on CD. The project was done in conjunction with St. Andrews Links Trust and features fly overs of the course as well as advice on how to play each hole.
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People
Custom club maker Henry-Griffitts promotes Paul Buchanan to the position of national sales manager. Buchanan previously served as the company's western sales manager.
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People, Places & Things
Wolf Creek at Paradise Canyon in Mesquite, Nev.

Golf courses are usually built by moving tons of dirt to carve fairways, greens and tees in places that previously were farms, forests or reclaimed land. In each case the designer is trying to create views on those same lands -- and at the same time make an enjoyable golf course.

The designer of Wolf Creek didn't need to move much dirt or create artificial vistas. Glaciers made them all long before during the Ice period years ago.

Wolf Creek is the most visually intimidating golf course you could ever hope to find. The course starts with a 579-yard par-five. Standing on an elevated tee you look down a fairway that stretches up a valley, boarded on both sides by sculptured rock formations that Mother Nature carved years before.

With a mountain lake within reach on the right side -- at least for the longer hitters -- the first hole prepares you for the 17 holes to come. The views from the first tee are only surpassed by the views from the par-four second hole, which with a tee 11 stories high is one of the more daunting drives in all of golf.

Wolf Creek continues this pattern of beauty throughout, with every hole an individual masterpiece created by nature and nurtured by designer Dennis Rider, who has also designed Falcon Ridge Golf Club in Mesquite.

At 7,073 yards from the back or Challenge tees, Wolf Creek is a worthy opponent to the better players that dare to take it on, but is comfortable for most from the 6,436-yard Champions tees.

Only 80 miles from Las Vegas, Wolf Creek is not an only a must for aficionados of golf course design, but for any one looking for a great place to play golf.

Don't miss it.

 

Correction: Guy Yocom is the Golf Digest editor who helped with Tiger Woods' "How I Play Golf" (Warner Books). His name was misspelled in Friday's issue of The Wire.